Pleasant William Murphy ³

  Death Notes:

Shawnee News-Star
Wednesday May 12, 1943 page 8

Murphy Services Will Be Today

Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. today in the Church of Christ for Pleasant William Murphy, 88, retired painter who died at 10:40 p.m. Monday at a local hospital.

Brother Perry B. Cotham, minister of the Church of Christ at Wewoka, will officiate and burial will be in Fairview cemetery. Rocesch Brothers are in charge. Bearers will be W. T. Brown, Leroy Flinchum, W. B. Cox, W. A. Thompson and Lawrence McGee.

Murphy, a member of the Church of Christ, has lived in this community since 1901, coming here from Collin county, Texas. He had been living at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Sam J Gardner, 510 North Louisa street.

Survivors include a son, P. B. Murphy, Oakland, Calif.; five daughters, Mrs. Gardner, Mrs. Joe Lane and Mrs. G. B. Betts, all of Shawnee, Mrs. C. C. Markham, McLoud, and Mrs. C. C. Ratliff, Chicago, Ill., 18 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

  Burial Notes:

He is buried B4-R15-2.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1860, Precinct 4, Collin, Texas. ⁶

• Census, 1870, Precinct 5, Collin, Texas. ⁷ He was a farm laborer.

• Census, 1880, Precinct 5, Collin, Texas. ⁴ He was a farmer.

• Census, 1900, Precint 5, Collin, Texas. ¹ He was a farmer, owned his farm but it was mortgaged.

• Moved, 1901, Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, USA. ^5,8 The Murphy family came to Oklahoma from Collin county, Texas. They lived on a farm north of Shawnee for several years.

• Census, 1910, 2-wd Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma. ⁹ He was a Blacksmith for the Rail Road Shop. It shows he was a widower.

• Census, 1920, Precint 2, Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma. ¹⁰ He was a Public Laborer.

• Census, 1930, Ward 1, Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma. ¹¹ He is living with his daughter Cleda & her family. He is retired at this time.

• Residence, Bef 12 May 1943, Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, USA. ⁵ He was living at his daughter Winnie Lee (Murphy) Gardner house before his death.

Pleasant married Eliza Jo Strain, daughter of John James Strain and Sarah J. Floyd, on 22 Dec 1880 ¹.^,2 (Eliza Jo Strain was born on 31 Mar 1861 in Texas,^1,3 died on 26 Mar 1908 ³ and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, USA ³.)